Bare ActsThe Maharashtra Merged Territories and Areas (Jagirs Abolition) Act.

Section 23

Jagirdars to deliver records to authorised officers.

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( 1 ) Whenever an officer authorised by the State Government in this behalf so directs, a jagirdar shall deliver to him or such other officer as may be specified in the direction, the records relating to the jagir village maintained by the jagirdar. ( 2 ) If the jagirdar fails without reasonable cause to deliver any such records, he shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees. In the case of a continuing failure to deliver any such records the jagirdar shall be punished with an additional fine which may extend to twenty-five rupees for every day during which such failure continues after conviction for the first such failure.

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